lightened up turkey meatballs and sauce
(6 ratings)
This won grand prize in that's Amore contest for Taste of Home's Healthy Cooking magazine. This will appear in the Aug/Sept issue, and there will be a mini write up on me also. This week I received a surprise from the folks at Taste of Home's healthy cooking a complimentary copy of the annual recipes in hardcover. This recipe is on the cover. Basically it is a recipe for meatballs that are lightend up by using ground turkey and baking the meatballs instead of frying. They changed it bc of sodium perimiters to 1 can of tomato sauce, I would never do it that way.
(6 ratings)
yield
12 to 15
prep time
35 Min
cook time
6 Hr
method
Slow Cooker Crock Pot
Ingredients For lightened up turkey meatballs and sauce
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1 1/2 lbground turkey
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1/2 citalian bread crumbs
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1equivelent to one egg subsitute
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1/3 mdonion, chopped
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1/4 tspsea salt, or salt subsitute to taste
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1/2 tspblack pepper
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sauce:
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1 mdonion, chopped
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1 mdgreen bell pepper, chopped
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1 smzuchinni, diced
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2 clovegarlic, minced
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14 1/2 ozcan diced tomatoes
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90 ozsix 15 ounce cans tomato sauce, i like hunts
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6 ozcan tomato puree
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2 mdbay leaves
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1 tspeach dried oregano and sweet sweet basil
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1/4 tspcrushed red pepper, or more to taste
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1 tspdried parsley
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1/2 tspeach salt or salt subsitute and pepper, or to taste
How To Make lightened up turkey meatballs and sauce
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1Pre heat oven to 350°
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2Combine all meat ball ingredients.
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3Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil (no cleanup).
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4Make meatballs as large as you like them I like mine on the small side, about 1 inches around.
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5Bakefor 25 to 30 minutes, until browned, turning a few times. They will finish up cooking in the sauce.
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6While meatballs are browning, chop all your veggies, and line the slow cooker with a disposable liner.
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7Put veggies in the slowcooker and all the rest of the sauce ingredients, stir to combine.
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8Add the meatballs and turn cooker on low. Cover and cook for 6 hours.
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9Nice served over spaghetti, and with a salad an garlic bread.
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